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Notes : — ', 



Tiie early Piratical Editions of Junius [- - - 



Inedited Letters of Southey and Nares . - . 



Favourite Christian Names in Families - - - 



The late Rev. R. H. Barham . . . - 

 Folk Lore : — Bees— German Superstition— Worcester- 



siiire Legend in Stone . - . - - 



Minor Notes: — Notes on 'Books and Binding, &-c — 

 Singular Misnomer— The Caxton Coffer— Shakspeare 

 Family ..__-■ 



285 

 286 

 287 

 287 



- 289 



Queries : — 



Milone's Shakspearian'Collections, by J. O. Halliwell - 289 

 Fox's " Book of Martyrs " - - - - 290 



Minor Queries : — Aber and Inver — " Patience, and 

 shuiHe the Cards" — Adrian Scroop, the Regicide — 

 Wake Family— Glossary of old Scientific and Medical 

 Terras — Sea Water — Portraits — Inscription on an 

 old Press — Freeman, a Gun Maker — Printed Music 



— Early Cast-iron Grave Slabs— The Gage Family — 

 Heywood's " Spider and the File " — " O . Hen . Fon . 

 Ned" — Family of Ames — Edmund Chaloner — Ser- 

 jeant Painter, Serjeant Surgeon, Serjeant of the 

 Paniry, &c. — Waller's Handwriting — Fercett — 

 Lady-day in Harvest ... - - 290 



Minor Queries Answered: — Dutensiana — Romanist 

 Members of Magdalen — History of old French Abbies 



— Culverkeys — Etymology of "Lyn"or"Liu" - 292 



Replies : — 



Paradise Lost 293 



Photography applied to Archseology, and practised in 



the open Air, by Dr. H. W. Diamond - - - 295 



Proposed Correction of Passage in " Love's Labour's 

 Lost," Act V. Sc. 2. by S. W. Singer, J. Payne 



Collier, &c. 1296 



Vicars- Apostolic ------ 298 



Wolsey and his Portraits 298 



Smothering Hydrophobic Patients - - - 298 



Shropshire Ballad, by W. Bell Macdonald, &c. - - 299 



The Habit of Profane Swearing by the English - - 299 



The Hereditary Standard Bearer, Scotland - - 300 



John Asgill 300 



Prophecies of Maiden Hildegare, by H. Walter, &c. - 302 

 Replies to Minor Queries : — Progressive Development 

 and Transmutation of Species — Sir Joshua's Portrait 

 of Cromwell — Proverbs — Female Fecundity — Dr. 

 Euseby Cleaver — Armorials — Foundation Stones — 

 "Veronica Plant and Saint — Histoire des Hosties Mira- 

 culeuses — Paley's " Lectures on Locke " — Wells 

 and Springs — Revolutionary Calendar — Chantry 

 Chapels — Punishment for Treason - - - 302 



Miscellaneous : — 



Notes on Books, &c. ----- 305 



Br-oks and Odd Volumes wanted - - - - 306 



Notices to Correspondents - - - - 300 



Advertisements --...- 307 



Vol. VI. — No. 152. 



THE EAELY PIRATICAL EDITIONS OF JUNIUS. 



The last edition to which I shall direct attention 

 is The Genuine Letters of Junius : to which are 

 prefixed Anecdotes of the Author. Piccadilly. 

 London, printed in the year 1771. There is, as 

 mentioned ante, p. 224., a copy of this edition in the 

 London Library ; and it is to the credit of the late 

 librarian, Mr. Cochrane, that in the very few years 

 that library has been established he added to it 

 two of the early piratical editions of this British 

 classic, whereas the librarians of our great National 

 Museum have never been able to procure, or 

 rather have never procured, a single copy. 



A first edition, I suspect, brought this collection 

 down to the letter to Mansfield of Nov. 1770 ; and 

 the copy in London Library was a re-issue, with 

 additions to Oct. 1771. There is a bl.ank page 

 after the former letter, and the Table of Contents 

 comes down no further. 



Mr. George Chalmers, with a wlldness of con- 

 jecture quite startling, asserted that this edition 

 was "plainly published, under the direction of 

 Junius himself, at a critical moment, for the pur- 

 poses of deception." As Mr. Chalmers knew only 

 of the edition of 1771, his " critical moment " must 

 have been In November or December of that year; 

 and therefore his argument and inference could 

 have no reference to a work which was first pub- 

 lished in 1770. But Mr. Chalmers had merely 

 cast an eye over the memoir prefixed. My own 

 opinion is, that " Piccadilly" was inserted In the 

 title-page " for the purpose of deception," and 

 that the volume itself was published by the no- 

 torious "J. Bew," and probably got up with the 

 assistance of his equally notorious friend, William 

 Combe, who was a great admirer of Junius. The 

 Impudent assertion about "Anecdotes of the 

 Author," confidently assumed to be E. Burke, 

 is very much after their fashion ; and there Is 

 included in the collection, and dated Dec. 25th, 

 1769, what professes to be an answer by His 

 Majesty to Junlus's address : a style of forgery 

 which these worthies afterwards perfected, and 

 published in nine volumes of the Royal Register. 

 This opinion is strengthened by the fact that the 



